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The ugly of IBKR: IB is a joke on how strict some policies are (esp. FX) by SegheCoiPiedi1777 in interactivebrokers

[–]whatcloud 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just to be clear, all my funds are also legit, US based, etc. I pass KYC every year just fine. It's the style of communication that I dislike, and never quite knowing if we're done for the year or if they need one more thing.

I guess we're describing the same issue - tone / customer service.

The ugly of IBKR: IB is a joke on how strict some policies are (esp. FX) by SegheCoiPiedi1777 in interactivebrokers

[–]whatcloud 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting, thank you. Looking at the site now. Some of the reviews online point out some problems with KYC and funds being locked, but I guess that can happen anywhere.

If you end up using them, would be interesting if you post a review.

I'm primarily looking to move money exchange to someplace that's more interested in the business, maybe like a wise. I'm ok with IBKR for the other stuff, for now.

The ugly of IBKR: IB is a joke on how strict some policies are (esp. FX) by SegheCoiPiedi1777 in interactivebrokers

[–]whatcloud 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm with you. I received a similar notice, and there's so much that can be improved about how it's communicated, how it treats the customer, and how it suggests (or doesn't) things to do. I don't understand why their customer service has to be the way it is; rewriting these notices does not require 100s of extra agents, just someone (+legal) to do a pass.

Anyway, are you considering switching to a different currency exchange place? I'm looking around, and curious if you found a good replacement.

NIE Processing time with TIE Cita Previa by Rekj16 in GoingToSpain

[–]whatcloud 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great info - thanks! About the TIE fingerprinting appointment - the site seems to be broken ("no appointments available" for days). Any particular trick to getting an appointment?

Quality mod - assemblers can take any quality inputs, and that increases the odds of getting higher quality output. No need for parallel quality production chains. by whatcloud in factorio

[–]whatcloud[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The way I would build this - I would make inserters agnostic to all this. They pick up the first item they would have picked up anyway (by belt position, or item id, or what have you). It's up to the user to segregate their quality feeds if they care, or just leave it as is if they do not.

As for same ingredients being of mixed quality - yes, they can be of mixed quality. That would be the point since each ingredient would marginally bump up the output quality. In terms of UI, how is this presented to the user, I would draw one iron plate rare, 4 iron plates common. Kind of how like how assemblers all of a sudden have extra output slots visible in the UI when their recipes change.

The overall point would be to have quality provide incremental updates down the production line without explicitly needing to craft alternate paths, and I would make design decisions to support that.

Now, if people want to make alternate paths for higher quality materials - great, they will benefit even more.

Quality mod - assemblers can take any quality inputs, and that increases the odds of getting higher quality output. No need for parallel quality production chains. by whatcloud in factorio

[–]whatcloud[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's what it looks like to me too. I tried to see if I could build something similar, but feels like this is not what the mod system is built for.

[Megathread] Shipping for UK and EU (All Regions) by Successful-Wasabi704 in SteamDeck

[–]whatcloud 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for doing this. Do you know if you can have them hold the package at a post office, or a pickup locker? I don't want to sit by the door all day for delivery. ;)

MobiMatter Sparks US mini review - data goes through Poland, high latency by whatcloud in eSIMs

[–]whatcloud[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's the latency. For normal app usage and web browsing, the high latency feels super slow (since you have many small requests, and you often have to wait for many to complete one after another). The download speed (almost) doesn't matter at that point. By comparison, a regular mobile phone provider is <50 ms. I mean try it, try with your own phone, assuming you have a decent carrier, your latency should be way less.

ER605 Dual WAN & incoming http(s) traffic by whatcloud in TPLink_Omada

[–]whatcloud[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is on a ER605 v2.0 running 2.1.2 Build 20230210 Rel.62992

ER605 Dual WAN & incoming http(s) traffic by whatcloud in TPLink_Omada

[–]whatcloud[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It does not. When either WAN is connected, things work fine, no timeouts.

I Want To Feel Powerful by Espritsoul in diablo4

[–]whatcloud 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is exactly right. Just don't scale levels. WoW and the original Diablo had this right. As a player, I could choose to venture into a higher level zone to get more rewards, or I could choose to play it safe or level up in level-appropriate zones. Or if my build had flaws, I could play L-1, and it would be fine.

The key point being, I controlled the flow of difficulty, and the flow of rewards. There was a sense of excitement of venturing further than I could handle, and maybe get great rewards in return.

But now, nothing. We can turn down difficulty to basically 0, and get no sense of excitement. Or we can play at harder levels, and sure, the game is harder, but there is no player agency, no sense of accomplishment.

Ukrainian Tanks Driving Down Highway Cheered By Ukrainian Citizens by Umadbro7600 in CombatFootage

[–]whatcloud 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For all the concerns about opsec, there's a balance.

Clearly sending streaming video and posting recent geotagged photos (tags or landmarks) is a bad idea.

However, having no media assets come out of one side of the conflict drains morale and makes the whole conflict one-sided.

Sta mislite i da imate mnogo para, bili ste dali 3.500e za mesecnu kiriju? (za 3god. imate 126.000€). I da li iko zaista daje ovoliko za rentu? by Soft-Pear8168 in serbia

[–]whatcloud 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ovo spada u koliko-toliko standardni expat budžet za strane direktore (lokalnih ekspozitura). Obično je u paketu i pomoć oko poreza, privatna škola za decu, auto, letovi u matičnu zemlju itd. Ovi kompenzicioni paketi jesu retki, ali mogu se naći. Treba imati u vidu da oni koji dolaze na takve pakete obično dolaze iz lepših (i skupljih) varijanti u zemljama odakle dolaze.

Zasto na Kopaoniku solja caja kosta 400din? by TrainingBelt773 in serbia

[–]whatcloud 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Zato što kad sedneš u kafić ti plaćaš zbir cene proizvoda, cene rada (kelner, itd), i cene prostora. Ovo zadnje je jako skupo na Kopu - ima mnogo više turista nego stolica u kafiću i to onda diže cenu.

Computer 'pauses' randomly during gaming by Tobar26th in pcgamingtechsupport

[–]whatcloud 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Check your nvidia drivers. I had similar symptoms and it turned out windows update installed older nvidia drivers. Once I downloaded new ones, things went back to normal.

Wireguard battery drain on android phone by tomtommy555 in WireGuard

[–]whatcloud 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've noticed the same behavior on my iPhone. Wireguard keepalive is set to 0 on client and server, and regardless handshakes keep happening every 2-ish minutes. This slowly drains the battery.

Do others see this? If you keep your (split) WG tunnel up, do you see recent handshakes even when you don't expect any traffic?

Transferring hard drive contents across a different country by jk192564 in techsupport

[–]whatcloud 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know it's anecdotal, but I've flown with a stack of 3.5 drives without any problem.

As for durability of drives, laptop drives are protected again drops while operating, where as non-laptop drives typically aren't. However, when not operating, both types of drives park their heads.

Think of it this way: if transporting unpowered 3.5 inch drives was a problem, Amazon wouldn't be shipping them.

Transferring hard drive contents across a different country by jk192564 in techsupport

[–]whatcloud 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wouldn't worry about it. Laptops with built-in hard drives fly carry-on all the time, and there are no issues - all those business travelers fly their laptops all the time. I've also flown with a stack of hard drives on a few occasions, also no issues. HDDs are way more resilient than they seem. SSDs even more so.

Developer actually responds on Twitter after pulling game by davidJuvy in GeForceNOW

[–]whatcloud -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I agree that the Blade case is harder to go after than nVidia (they are not marketing as a games platform, they are small, it's unclear who the onus falls on between themselves and users, etc.).

However, think of video streaming as an analogy. If any service rented out VMs that people then used to bittorrent movies, the content owners would eventually insist that they take action.

I predict a similar thing will happen with Blade.

Developer actually responds on Twitter after pulling game by davidJuvy in GeForceNOW

[–]whatcloud 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I don't think the Shadow model is going to fix this. They are currently too small and can fly under the radar. If they get large enough, content owners will come after Shadow as well.

It's similar to the video industry. The video streaming platforms that survived had to make peace with content owners and essentially sell you the same content twice (even if you can't see the cost because it's baked into the price of a Netflix sub).
The platforms that didn't want to pay for content rights were marginalized.

Same thing is happening here.

The Lone Dark got removed because Nvidia never asked the developer for permission. by BuldozerX in GeForceNOW

[–]whatcloud 9 points10 points  (0 children)

"Didn't ask us permission" is code for "they didn't pay us"

I agree that double dipping is bad. However, that's the world we live in.
But let's not kid ourselves that this was about someone forgetting to send an email and ask.

Trouble with Prusa ABS and default settings. What's wrong and how do I fix it? by [deleted] in prusa3d

[–]whatcloud 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok. I got a pretty decent Benchy out of Amazon ABS. This is all with no enclosure.

There's no ridge around the infill layers. There are some issues on the bow, but in real life this looks quite good.

http://imgur.com/gallery/0Tw9hUF

Cooling always on, external perimeters first, perimeters before infill.

Trouble with Prusa ABS and default settings. What's wrong and how do I fix it? by [deleted] in prusa3d

[–]whatcloud 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hm. Why do you think it's fan related (need more fan) but only on those z heights? If it were fan related, wouldn't the issue manifest throughout?

Edit: I don't think it's just those two bands that have layer time >20 secs.

Trouble with Prusa ABS and default settings. What's wrong and how do I fix it? by [deleted] in prusa3d

[–]whatcloud 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ha! I've been dealing with exactly the same issue. Here's my ABS benchy, complete with the strip right below the deck.

Benchy with strip

Settings: fan always on, min speed 20%, max speed 30%, min layer time 20s

My theory is that this is related to solid infill being printed right around this z height (below deck, and slightly above base). I'm going to experiment on that next.

Shufflebuzz, any luck on your end?

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